HELP! New laptop, bad installation of OS

[snajamahmed]

Alright, so I just got a Dell Vostro 3550 with a 1 gig graphics card. it came with Ubuntu preinstalled, so I flashed it with a pirated Win 7 64 bit, the one that's cracked by some Orbit30 shizzle. Apparently when it boots up, there are no drivers installed on it. Not even the Ethernet controller works! Only the audio does. Everything else is just effed up. I tried installing drivers from the Dell website, didn't work as properly as it should. Is there anybody who can be of assistance here? I can bring it over to you or you can come over if you like and get it fixed. Or you can help me from here only!

[theundead]

dont know about orbit30

1-did you fully format the hard disk to ntfs? quick format may cause problems. & did everything work in ubuntu?

2-install a vanilla(totally original, untouched) copy of windows & then activate it using a loader or RemoveWAT, & see if it works

3-you can use a freeware driver installation utility such as driver identifier to get all the latest drivers for your devices

[abobobilly]

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[Spyder]

Kind of a similar situation here. Dell Inspiron N4050. Intel Pentium B950, 2GB DDR3, 320GB HDD just updated it to ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 fails to boot after complete installation giving some ACPI error!

[Baghi]

@theundead. Do NOT link to illegal contents, it may hurt PG's reputation.

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@snajamahmed. Do what @theundead said in his point no. 2. I'm always against those modified versions of Windows. You can find "official" download links here [<-- click] and then activate it using Daz Windows Loader. Perform an absolute clean and fresh installation of Windows and then try to install the appropriate drivers. Report back, once you're finished.

[Juste]

there might be problem with that windows dvd setup. try any other setup or iso image what ever

[Jshak]

Did u contact the vendor chat support ?

[sohaib50k]

Try the windows7 only,for some reason the SP1 doest work with my laptop either.

[snajamahmed]

Alright guys, thanks so much for the help. I got it fixed now, it's working sleek as ever. Although for some reason, there's still an 'unknown device' in the Device Manager, of which I have no clue, because it says 'no drivers are required or installed for this device'. However, everything is working fine now, and I might just try PC gaming on the 1 gig GFX on this thing!

[Majawar]

Kind of a similar situation here. Dell Inspiron N4050. Intel Pentium B950, 2GB DDR3, 320GB HDD just updated it to ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 fails to boot after complete installation giving some ACPI error!

Apparently you are doing something wrong. I also updated my N4050 from Ubuntu 11.10 to Win 7 Ultimate and its working fine.